Synonyms for surroundings
sur·round·ings

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1. milieu, surroundingsnoun

   the environmental condition

   Synonyms:
   surround, milieu, environment, environs

2. environment, environs, surroundings, surroundnoun

   the area in which something exists or lives

   "the country--the flat agricultural surround"

   Synonyms:
   surround, milieu, purlieu, environment, environs

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1. • Environment

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1. surroundingsnoun

   Synonyms:
   environment, entourage

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1. List of paraphrases for "surroundings":

   moheet, environs, environment, periphery, outskirts, environments

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How to use surroundings in a sentence?

1. Javier Soch and Seth Ortega:

   It’s not what we were expecting our day to turn out with, the game, when it loads up on the screen, says to be cautious of your surroundings. Strongly follow that advice.

2. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve:

   Everything is being organized to maximize security at the conference itself, and its surroundings.

3. Larry Johnson:

   You kind of create your own prison, i’ve kind of barricaded myself in my surroundings [with] certain things that I can handle. That’s kind of how I beat it.

4. Megan Thoemmes:

   In some ways, our attempts to create a clean environment for ourselves may actually make our surroundings less ideal.

5. Birgitta Evengård:

   You must remember our immune defense has been developed in close contact with microbiological surroundings, if there is a virus hidden in the permafrost that we have not been in contact with for thousands of years, it might be that our immune defense is not sufficient.